Sunday 25 November 2012

Fancy Some New Bands in Your Life?

I spend a lot time hunting through band pages, record labels and review websites to find music and industry news. It's fun for me cause I find out stuff about the music I like including tour dates, album releases and lots of gossip. But it then also gives me a lot to talk about in my hour radio show.

The show this week is very music-heavy but I'm hoping you will enjoy the collection of tracks I have put together and find a band/artist that you want to listen to more. Also if you think there are any bands I should be playing as well, leave me a wee comment and I'll have a listen.

You can find the track list for the show below but if you want more detail about the songs or bands then listen via the link.







Tracklisting

Dum Dum Girls - I Got Nothing
AlunaGeorge - Your Drums, Your Love
Veronica Falls -Teenage
Eugene McGuiness - Sugarplum
The Joy Formidable - Cholla
Fatherson - First Born

Chill-Out Track
Bon Iver - Holocene (Dosh Remix)

Little Green Cars - The John Wayne
Karen O - Strange Love
Everything Everything - Kemosabe

Album of the Week: Crystal Castles - (III)
Crystal Castles - Affection

Boy - Little Numbers


Sunday 11 November 2012

Twin 1 and Twin 2.


This week my twin sister came to visit me in Glasgow so it only seemed right to take her onto Strathclyde Fusion and make her my special guest on MusicBubble.(The photo is about 6 months old but I posted it so you could see how similar we look :P ).
Well one similarity we do have is our music taste - the songs she suggested were ideal and after playing them on the show I now have two new bands to follow.


Ben Howard
Another highlight of my sister's trip was the Ben Howard gig we went to yesterday. I have wanted to see him live for ages and he defiantly exceed my high expectations. You would think after touring with the same one album for over a year the performance may be quite flat. However, the  cheeky wee smile and slick guitar skills showed that he still loves it. The songs from his very new EP 'The Burgh Island' fit well into this set as they're quite atmospheric sounding between the classics 'Keep Your Head Up' and 'The Wolves'. Kinda wish he had played his cover of Carly Rae Jepsen though....


So here is the recording of this week's show. My aim in the next couple of shows is to work on the sound levels with bedding tracks and mics but hope you enjoy the music of this week's MusicBubble.

LOVE x



Tracklisting

The Lumineers - Ho Hey
2:54 - Sugar
Fossil Collective - On & On
Asaf Avidan & the Mojos - One Day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix)
CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
Peace - Bloodshake

Chill-Out Track
Ben Howard - Oats In The Water

The Subways - It's A Party
Villagers - Passing a Message

Ali's Tracks
Mt. Wolf - Life Size Ghosts
fiN - The Artisan

Album of the Week: Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
Two Door Cinema Club - Sun

Hanni El Khatib - You Rascal You

Saturday 3 November 2012

"A Wave. An Awesome Wave."

This week the show was a little different as the Mercury Prize Winner was to be announced 4hrs after my show was on air.  Therefore it made perfect sense for the show to contain a run down of all 12 nominees and what they were all about as well as the usual kind of music that I like to play.

The Mercury Prize is talked about a lot every year as it celebrates new, emerging or alternative UK albums and artists that perhaps wouldn't get a look in within other award ceremonies. It is also known for the judges giving their one and only award to perhaps the underdog or the unexpected contender rather than the more obvious choice (Speech Debelle in 2009??). This is perhaps why people have said that this is a pretentious event because it purposely doesn't appeal to the mass, mainstream-loving audience, but both Ben Howard and Plan B were nominated this year....
Personally, I think it's a great event and, this year especially, I was keen to read a lot of the articles and news stories about all the nominees and their albums.

AND THE 2012 WINNER IS>>>

Congrats to Alt-J!
Winning the award this year for their album 'An Awesome Wave'

Regardless of them winning this award, this is one of my favourite albums of the year. My friends on Facebook and Spotify could tell you that I probably listen to this album at least 3 times a week. It's a perfect album to listen to all the way through with all the tracks linking so well together but still having individual uniqueness about them. Very happy that I already have tickets to see them live in May.

Have a listen to this week's show and maybe have your say; let me know who your winner would be...

LOVE x

(Apologises for the occasional dodgey mic levels)

Tracklisting

Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms
Masters in France - Playin' With My Friends
Haim - Forever
Cave Painting - So Calm
Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Grimes - Genesis

Chill-Out Track:
The Civil Wars - I Want You Back

The Mercury Prize Nominees
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
Django Django - Selftitled
Field Music - Plumb
Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
Micheal Kiwanuka - Home Again
Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough?
Sam Lee - Ground of Its Own
The Maccabees - Given to the Wild
Plan B - Ill Manors
Roller Trio - Selftitled
Jessie Ware - Devotion



Sunday 21 October 2012

May I Introduce Miss Alyxs Shaw....

This week's show was the first official MusicBubble with my lovely co-host Alyxs. We have been doing this radio thing together for awhile before this new show started and I have to admit.... there's a defiant Bromance goin' on....






On this week's show....
In the last couple of weeks, Glastonbury tickets were released, then sold out and now rumours are spreading. Therefore, Alyxs and me decided to have a look at the headliner rumours that were flying around the Inter-web. The main band we found exciting as a rumour was Fleetwood Mac. - even though I won't be going to Glasto (due to no pennys), I would love to see this legendary band re-group and make festival history. - Here's hoping!


Have a listen to the show below for the now regular features of the Chill-Out Track, Album of the Week and other great tunes. You'll also get your first sampling of Alyxs' hilarious chat.

LOVE x






Tracklisting

Bastille - Bad Blood
Veronica Falls - Found Love in a Graveyard
The Kills - Future Starts Slow
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - That's Whats Up

Chill-Out Track
Warpaint - Baby

Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough?

Album of the Week: Jake Bugg - Selftitled
Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt

Everything Everything - Cough Cough
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
We Are The Ocean - Bleed



Saturday 13 October 2012

Show No.1

Here it is, my first show of MusicBubble - hopefully it can only get better!

For the hour I played a variety of new music from some great artist and bands; also including a 'Chill-Out Track' and an 'Album of the Week' which I will change every show.

Just to confuse everyone as well I ended my show with a Led Zeppelin song. I'm very aware that this not in anyway classed as new music but I did have some reasoning behind this. My show was broadcast the day before the London Premiere of Led Zeppelin's 'Celebration Day' release. Seeing as Led Zep is one of my favourite bands it seemed only right to finish my first show on one of their classics that I got my listeners to chose.

Below is the recording of my show (I will be posting these every show) so have a listen and let me know what you guys think and if there is anything you think I should be playing.

LOVE x





Tracklisting

Alt-J - Tessellate
Band of Skulls - You're Not Pretty but you Got It Goin' On
The Temper Trap - Miracle
The Joy Formidable - Whirring

Chill Out Track:
Lucy Rose - Bikes

Villagers - The Waves
Blood Red Shoes - Cold
Jack White - I'm Shakin'

Album of the Week: 'Coexist' by The XX
The XX - Chained

And to end the show: (chosen by the listeners)
Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks

Tuesday 2 October 2012

The beginning of something good *fingers crossed*

THURSDAY 5pm to 6pm - is now the new time slot for MusicBubble. You can tune in this week to hear the pilot. And Yes, I am using the word ' pilot' to cover my back if any of the features etc are a bit dodgy.

My student radio station also has a new website so check it out and it is also where you can live stream my show. - www.strathclydefusion.com

What my show is all about
Every week I want to play an hour of popular and new music from an array of alternative genres. 'Alternative' is a bizarre word as it doesn't really mean much but is used alot to describe unusual fashions and trends. My reasoning for the word-use is basically to illustrate the fact I won't be playing mainstream chart music.

There are loads of bands and artist who have been releasing music over the past years but have always skimmed the surface of mainstream and never quite fit or who are on the road to 'making it'. These are my kind of people and the type of unconventionality I'm wanting for my show.


After my first show on Thursday I will post up a new playlist and (hopefully) a recording of the hour so you can listen if you missed it :D

LET'S DO THIS.

LOVE x

Monday 3 September 2012

Patiently waiting...

This summer is far too long when you have run out of money....

Uni is re-starting in the next couple of weeks as will my student radio career :)

For now I have just updated my song playlist at the side which is the result of me going to Leeds Festival! I could probably write several more blog entries about campsite antics, drink-related incidents and the amazing bands that played ... however, i am going to keep to the tradition of 'what happens (insert place), stays (insert place). But if you are interested i'm sure you can find out on Facebook.

All I'm going to say is - If you havent been to festival, GO! people often tell you the worse parts about sleeping in a field with a hole as a toilet but the overall experience is something you can never truely express in words.....

And now for something actually music related.... Irrespective of me seeing both these bands at Leeds, I highly recommend you have a listen to (if you havent already of course) - Foo Fighters and Of Monsters and Men.
The first being one of my favourite bands of all time and I will forever love the man that is Dave Grohl who (in my eyes) plays and appreciates such brillant rock music.
The second is an up and coming Icelandic band who plays such orginal upbeat folk music. More and more people are hearing about them so have a listen and get involved.

Shall keep you posted on when I get a new time slot for my radio show, probably via Twitter.


LOVE x